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Monday, December 23, 2013

People who use the bible as the basis for their hate don't need the bible, their hate is self sustaining.

Here is Everything Jesus says about homosexuality..

NOTHING

Thats right, Jesus said nothing about homosexuality but he spoke many times about the poor. Below are some examples of what Christ said about the poor. So the next time you hear some right wing republican suggest poor children sweep the floor so they can eat or that taking food support away from the poor will make them better people, pause and reflect on the thoughts of Jesus.

Luke 6:20-21Then he looked up at his disciples and said: 'Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

'Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. 'Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Luke 4:16-19

When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:

'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour.'

Matthew 25:34-36

Then the king will say to those at his right hand, "Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in

prison and you visited me."

Mark 10:21-22

Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, "You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me." When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions.

Mark 12:41-44

He sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. 42 A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a penny. 43 Then he called his disciples and said to them, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury. 44 For all of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on."

Luke 14:12-14

He said also to the one who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

Luke 16:19-25

"There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.

In Hades, where he was being tormented, he looked up and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side. He called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in these flames.' But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner

evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.

Luke 11:39-42

Then the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You fools! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? So give for alms those things that are within; and see, everything will be clean for you. "But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and herbs of all kinds, and neglect justice and the love of God

Luke 12:16-21

Then he told them a parable: "The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, 'What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?' Then he said, 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, 'Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God."

Jesus said a lot about the poor. Please, somebody remember this and proceed accordingly.

My apoligies for using religon to make a point and dragging it into politics. I don't like to do this but every right winger I meet quotes one verse from the bible, always the old testament, and acts as if that has not been superceeded by the new testament.

Here are some Archaic Old Testament sins and punishments that time has left behind.

Punishment for adultery

Leviticus 20:10. If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

Leviticus 20:11. If a man lie with his stepmother, and discover the nakedness of his father, let them both be put to death: their blood be upon them.

Leviticus 20:12. If any man lie with his daughter in law: let both die, because they have done a heinous crime. Their blood be upon them.

Leviticus 20:14. If any man after marrying the daughter, marry her mother, he hath done a heinous crime. He shall be burnt alive with them: neither shall so great an abomination remain in the midst of you.

Leviticus 20:17. If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her brother's shame: they have committed a crime. They shall be slain, in the sight of their people, because they have discovered one another's nakedness. And they shall bear their iniquity.

Leviticus 20:19. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy aunt by thy mother, and of thy aunt by thy father. He that doth this, hath uncovered the shame of his own flesh: both shall bear their iniquity.

Leviticus 20:20. If any man lie with the wife of his uncle by the father, or of his uncle by the mother, and uncover the shame of his near akin, both shall bear their sin. They shall die without children.

Leviticus 20:21. He that marrieth his brother's wife, doth an unlawful thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness. They shall be without children.

Deuteronomy 22:22. If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel.

Punishment for having sex with a menstruating woman

Leviticus 20:18. If any man lie with a woman in her flowers, and uncover her nakedness, and she open the fountain of her blood: both shall be destroyed out of the midst of their people.Leviticus 15:19. The woman, who at the return of the month, hath her issue of blood, shall be separated seven days. Levitcus 15:20. Every one that toucheth her, shall be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:21. And every thing that she sleepeth on, or that she sitteth on in the days of her separation, shall be defiled.Leviticus 15:22. He that toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes: and being himself washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.Leviticus 15:23. Whosoever shall touch any vessel on which she sitteth, shall wash his clothes: and himself being washed with water, shall be defiled until the evening.Leviticus 15:24. If a man copulateth with her in the time of her flowers, he shall be unclean seven days: and every bed on which he shall sleep, shall be defiled.

Punishment for working on Saturday

Exodus 31:15. Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the sabbath, the rest holy to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work on this day, shall die.

Exodus 35:2. Six days you shall do work; the seventh day shall be holy unto you, the sabbath and the rest of the Lord: he that shall do any work on it, shall be put to death.

Punishment for disobedient childrenExodus 21:15. He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.Exodus 21:17. He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.

Deuteronomy 21:18. If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:

Deuteronomy 21:19. They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of the city, and to the gate of judgment,

Deuteronomy 21:20. And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings:

Deuteronomy 21:21. The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that you may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel hearing it may be afraid.

Punishment for worshipping other gods

Exodus 22:20. He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save only to the Lord.

Deutoronomy 7:26. Neither shalt thou bring any thing of the idol into thy house, lest thou become an anathema, like it. Thou shalt detest it as dung, and shalt utterly abhor it as uncleanness and filth, because it is an anathema. Sanctioning of slavery

Exodus 21:7. If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.

Exodus 21:8. If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.

Leviticus 25:44. Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you:

Prevention of the disabled from worshipping

Leviticus 21:17. Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.

Leviticus 21:18. Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind; if he be lame; if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose;

Leviticus 21:19. If his foot, or if his hand be broken;

Leviticus 21:20. If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture.

Leviticus 21:21. Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish: he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his God. Punishment for bestiality

Leviticus 20:15. He that shall copulate with any beast or cattle, dying let him die: the beast also ye shall kill. The beast also ye shall kill. . .The killing of the beast was for the greater horror of the crime, and to prevent the remembrance of such abomination.

Leviticus 20:16. The woman that shall lie under any beast, shall be killed together with the same. Their blood be upon them.

References For Sins and PunishmentsThe Old Testament of the King James Version of the Bible

Phil Robertson can say and believe anything he wants to and he can take the flack he gets for saying it. Freedom of speech is between the government and the citizen. The company he works for (A and E) is free to react as they may please to Phil's speech. It is the same for You and me. Who knows how many people will be rubbed the wrong way by this article?

Sunday, December 22, 2013

All thru President Obama's first term republicans dragged their feet and obstructed the recovery of the economy. The GOP did all they could do to make sure the recovery did not happen on Obama's watch. Their master plan was to reclaim the Presidency and get the credit for the recovery that the ground work was laid for. The economy would have rebounded two years ago had it not been for the republicans slowing things down. Their plan failed, Romney and Ryan failed to win the election and their callous lack of care for the American workwer exploded in their faces. Now 2014 is set for a great recovery of the economy and no matter how hard republicans resist and fight against it, it will happen. President Obama will get the credit he richly deserves. Republicans sacrificed workers, jobs and the economy in their attempt to have power. Until the GOP changes they do not deserve to be elected to any office and those voting for republicans are living in a dream bubble that will destroy the republican party.

Hard Right GOP Sends Donors to Democrats

Sharon Caliendo of Norman, Okla., worked for home state Republican Sens. Tom Coburn and Jim Inhofe. She worked for Republican Gov. Mary Fallin. She worked for Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) last Senate campaign.

But ever since the tea party gained a dominant hold on the GOP agenda, Caliendo has taken both her vote and her small campaign contributions to the Democrats.

"They've gone so hard right," Caliendo, who calls herself a Colin Powell Republican, said. "They have no common sense left."

In 2012, Caliendo began making small donations to the reelection campaign of President Barack Obama. After the election, she gave to the chief political arm of congressional Democrats, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. She has now made more than 13 contributions totaling $376.

In the first 10 months of 2013, the DCCC dominated its Republican counterpart in fundraising. It did so in no small part by attracting new donors like Caliendo, frustrated with the Republican-led House of Representatives.

"The tea party, more than anything, and their growing influence in Congress," said Mike Snider, who works on a Navy base in southern Maryland, when asked why he has made at least 17 contributions to the DCCC totaling $513 this year.

That may not seem like much when the most expensive 2014 House race has already topped $9 million in fundraising. But Democrats have been remarkably successful at tapping huge numbers of small donors like Snider and Caliendo, who give over and over. That success may translate beyond money in next year's elections. As Caliendo noted, "Smaller donors are where the votes are at."

More than 15 percent of the DCCC's $65.2 million in fundraising through October -- or $10.1 million -- came from more than 11,700 donors who did not make a contribution in the 2012 election cycle, according to a review of Federal Election Commission records by The Huffington Post.

The National Republican Congressional Committee raised $5.7 million from more than 4,200 donors who did not give in 2012. Through October, the NRCC had raised $52.4 million.

More than half of the new DCCC donors made more than one contribution. Nearly 700 individuals made 10 or more donations. These repeat donors accounted for $3.4 million of the new donor money raised by the committee. That may only be one-third of the total raised from new donors, but these repeat donors are far more likely to keep giving through Election Day 2014.

While the DCCC is successfully getting new donors to pony up multiple times, the NRCC is struggling. Just 28 percent of new NRCC donors made more than one contribution. Only 19 individual donors made more than 10 contributions.

The NRCC, heavily reliant on big donors, received more than half of its new money from donors giving $10,000 or more. Donors giving $1,000 or more accounted for 90 percent of all new contributions to the Republican committee.

Big donors also played a huge role for the DCCC, with 47 percent of its new donor funds coming from those giving $10,000 or more.

Two-thirds of the new money came from donors making a contribution of $1,000 or more.

But donors giving less than $1,000 accounted for one-third of the new DCCC money. The NRCC raised 10 percent from that category of donors. These donors do not include those giving less than $200, the threshold for public disclosure of a donor's name and amount they gave.

Neither the DCCC nor the NRCC responded to requests for comment.

Controversy has aided the Democrats' fundraising successes. The committee's two best fundraising months, among both overall and new donors, came during the 16-day government shutdown in October and the political standoff that led up to it."Mainly my giving works when [Republicans have] done something really stupid, made a really stupid remark, and the [DCCC] comes out with their thing saying can you give $5," Caliendo explained. "In one week I think I gave like $250 because I was so mad. That was leading into the shutdown."

The elevation of Democrats' enemies, like the austerity-promoting House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), also helped rake in money. The DCCC's third-best fundraising month came in March, after the House passed Ryan's budget, which would have cut Social Security and Medicare benefits.These strategies are at the heart of the DCCC's successful digital fundraising program. The committee has carefully tailored its appeals to Democratic partisans, angry at the tea party and the Koch brothers. This is done through a stream of emails to the DCCC's massive list of supporters."Once you've given once, if you give them your email, you get lots of emails," Snider said.Some help the DCCC raise more money.Randall Redmon, a bagger and janitor at a Kroger supermarket in Versailles, Ky., has made more than 56 contributions totaling $370. He posts every fundraising email he gets from the DCCC to Facebook and Twitter to try and help raise more money than he can give himself.

"If they say that Republicans are trying to steal something or take away something, I'm trying to get as many people as I can to help stop them," Redmon said. "That's what I do. I spread the word." Supporters can set up a recurring donation to keep their support flowing, as Caliendo, Snider and Redmon, among many others, have done.The DCCC also raises money through an online store, a tactic pioneered by the 2008 Obama presidential campaign.

"Sometimes I buy stuff from their store and that's like a contribution, too," Redmon said. "Sweaters and stuff, and shirts."These new Democratic donors will likely continue to pile on contributions whenever the DCCC amplifies the actions of House Republicans. But there are always some important factors that could lead some to cut off their giving.

"It depends on how things are going with polls and my finances and my job," Snider said.The elevation of Democrats' enemies, like the austerity-promoting House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), also helped rake in money. The DCCC's third-best fundraising month came in March, after the House passed Ryan's budget, which would have cut Social Security and Medicare benefits.These strategies are at the heart of the DCCC's successful digital fundraising program. The committee has carefully tailored its appeals to Democratic partisans, angry at the tea party and the Koch brothers. This is done through a stream of emails to the DCCC's massive list of supporters.

"Once you've given once, if you give them your email, you get lots of emails," Snider said. Some help the DCCC raise more money.

Randall Redmon, a bagger and janitor at a Kroger supermarket in Versailles, Ky., has made more than 56 contributions totaling $370.

He posts every fundraising email he gets from the DCCC to Facebook and Twitter to try and help raise more money than he can give himself.

"If they say that Republicans are trying to steal something or take away something, I'm trying to get as many people as I can to help stop them," Redmon said. "That's what I do. I spread the word."

Supporters can set up a recurring donation to keep their support flowing, as Caliendo, Snider and Redmon, among many others, have done.

The DCCC also raises money through an online store, a tactic pioneered by the 2008 Obama presidential campaign.

"Sometimes I buy stuff from their store and that's like a contribution, too," Redmon said. "Sweaters and stuff, and shirts."

These new Democratic donors will likely continue to pile on contributions whenever the DCCC amplifies the actions of House

Republicans. But there are always some important factors that could lead some to cut off their giving.

"It depends on how things are going with polls and my finances and my job," Snider said.

Republican Congressman Jack Kingstonof Georgia riffed on the failings of the federal school-lunch program in a speech at aJackson County Republican Party gathering, saying: "Why don't you have the kids pay a dime, pay a nickel to instill in them that there is, in fact, no such thing as a free lunch? Or maybe sweep the floor of the cafeteria." Kingston followed that by saying he realizes the concept is an "administrative problem" and would definitely lose money if instituted — most likely because someone would have to custom manufacturer all those millions of tiny push brooms.

Is it the voters who elected Kingston or the Congressman himself who have such a loose grip on reality? Maby Both.

When pressed for explanation, Kingston's spokesman fired back that it was "sad that trying to have a productive conversation about instilling a strong work ethic in the next generation of Americans so quickly devolves into the usual name-calling partisan hysteria." He added: "Having worked from a young age himself, Congressman Kingston understands the value of hard work and the important role it plays in shaping young people."

Of course, that explains nothing, except that Kingston thinks plain-old primary school isn't hard enough work without a little hard labor thrown in. Making low-income students into janitors while richer kids snack on with their deluxe Lunchables could just be the beginning. There's potential for a tiered labor system here, one in which students with poor sweeping skills only merit mini milk cartons, while would-be Mr. Cleans are rewarded with ten-piece nugget meals.

Dumber thingshave alreadybeen happeningover a couple cents on the dollar, so maybe it's only a matter of time until back-to-school circulars start featuring the latest in protective knee pads and radical new scouring sponges.